Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3118180 in Books
- Published on: 2003-06
- Original language:
English
- Binding: Paperback
- 112 pages
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Synopsis
In preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held in August 2002 in Johannesburg, here Wolfgang Sachs and colleagues advance some fundamental ideas and principles for tackling humanity's double crisis of environmental deterioration and mass poverty. They: assess the Earth summit in Rio, ten years on; set the basis for the Johannesburg agenda; argue for livelihood rights and wealth alleviation; and advance ideas for the governance of the global commons. Their positive agenda for people and planet is rooted in equity. It is one that the world community can unite and campaign for to persuade the public, governments and multilateral institutions to change their thinking and take real action.
